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Boosting Performance with Intel’s QuickAssist Technology
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Big Data, IoT, and storage (cloud and enterprise) solutions are very compute-intensive. These technologies move large amounts of data in and out of storage and require secure data transmission across the network. To help this evolving market, Intel is introducing QuickAssist technology.
Intel QuickAssist Technology [1] provides security and compression acceleration capabilities to improve performance and efficiency on Intel Architecture platforms. Server, networking, big data, and storage applications use Intel QuickAssist to offload compute-intensive operations, such as:
- Symmetric cryptography functions, including cipher operations and authentication operations
- Public key functions, including RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and elliptic curve cryptography,
- Compression and decompression functions, including DEFLATE
QuickAssist enables users to meet the demands of ever-increasing amounts of data, especially data with the need for encryption and compression. QuickAssist helps users ensure applications are fast, secure, and available.
What is QuickAssist?
Intel QuickAssist Technology runs on Intel architecture. At a high level, the platform pairs an Intel architecture processor(s) with the Intel Communications 8925 to 8955 Series chipset.
QuickAssist offloads crypto and compression tasks from the CPU to the 89XX communications chip. Functionally, the Intel Communications Chipset 8925 to 8955 is most easily described as a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) that includes both standard PC interfaces (e.g., PCI Express, SATA, USB, and so on) together with Intel QuickAssist Technology accelerator and I/O interfaces.
Figure 1 shows an Intel communications platform that features the Intel Xeon Processor E5-2658 and E5-2448L with the Intel
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